Mutoid Waste Company: 'We made a giant toad out of VW Beetles' – Glastonbury festival 2014 video profile

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# Glastonbury 2014

# Glastonbury festival

Artist Joe Rush has been taking his cast of repurposed machinery creations to the Glastonbury festival since the mid-80s. Under the banner of the Mutoid Waste Company, Rush and his team have curated performance art pieces at the festival's Trash City and the Unfairground late-night areas. Here, Rush talks through Mutoid's plans for Glastonbury 2014

• Special thanks to the producers of Julien Temple's film Glastonbury (2006) for permission to use archive footage

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Tshepo Mokoena and Tom Silverstone

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